Francis Terry

It is with sadness for the family that my father Quinlan Terry, has needed to retire from practicing architecture due to poor health. He has had an amazing career working until the ripe old age of 88 and becoming the best classical architect of his generation.

Follow link to see my latest blog about the Sicilian stuccodore Giacomo Serpotta ftanda.co.uk/thoughts/giaco…

What was Vanbrugh’s relationship to Hawksmoor? Follow link for my very personal thoughts on the subject ftanda.co.uk/thoughts/what-…

Check out this little extract from a conversation with my father about the Classical Orders. You can watch the full video on YouTube youtu.be/tKX4l6F2i5U?fe…. 🏛️🏛️

Every so often, a Victorian shop or gin palace, rich with joyfully vulgar excess, is swapped out for another modernist lump, bereft of fun or detail. Marks & Spencer’s recently approved proposal to demolish their fine Art Deco department store and replace it with “could be anywhere” spreadsheet architecture is particularly heartless. They should have picked our proposal with @FTerryArchitect which was five times more popular with the public... createstreets.com/projects/ms-fl…

Bigger and better. This marvellous enrichment of central London by @FTerryArchitect has recently been granted planning permission. Bravo

... you can read @boys_nicholas dispatch from Hatfield here and.. createstreets.com/building-for-g…

What a spectacular improvement. If more new buildings were such a palpable IMPROVEMENT on the status quo would more than 2% of people trust developers to improve existing places? Well done @FTerryArchitect

How one man started the architectural counter-reformation... many who follow us will find this interview of Quinlan Terry by his son @FTerryArchitect fascinating. A must watch for anyone interested in traditional place-making youtube.com/embed/Zr9Z1rps…

This video is an interview between Francis and his father Quinlan Terry CBE, discussing the many unforgettable moments in his highly successful sixty-year career in classical architecture. Follow link ftanda.co.uk/thoughts/quinl…

A wonderful interview between Son and Father. Two of the most important classical architects of our time... and great members of TAG. @FTerryArchitect @QuinlanTerryArc youtu.be/Zr9Z1rpsfek?si…

@Fictionwitch @RobertKwolek Thanks 🙏 here’s my article “Glad to be Pastiche” ftanda.co.uk/thoughts/glad-…

@RobertKwolek @FTerryArchitect It's still being bandied around regularly as insult here! But yes @FTerryArchitect is an hero.

This is gorgeous, and exactly the sort of idea that gets labelled or rather condemed as "pastiche". I think we should reclaim the word and use "pastiche" as a badge of honour. People bloomin' like it, you know!

@Shanghai_Rose @jambojimmysp Which is a copy of a copy. The Palladians copied Palladio and Palladio copied the Romans. So doubly pastiche and fake.

@FTerryArchitect @jambojimmysp Palladianism.

While the French celebrate the rebuilding of Notre Dame, the National Trust has decided to leave the majestic Clandon Park as an evocative ruin following its devastating fire. History will not remember this decision kindly. It must be rebuilt, they have the insurance money

@Shanghai_Rose @jambojimmysp The original Georgian building was a fake Roman building, being Neo classical. Did you dislike that too?

@FTerryArchitect @jambojimmysp Imo restoration is the same as Disney fiction, which ever way you look at it its not real, its fake.

This is a tweet posted in 2019. #Clandon should do the same. Replace what was lost, faithfully. What is the point of heritage legislation if that isn’t done?

@THE_LHC @TradNorm @russellcurtis @ABell2019 @yuanyi_z We have some of the best plasterwork craftsmen and women in the world. It would be a great opportunity for them. If it was restored to its former glory, everyone would be incredibly proud of the result, like the French are proud of Notre Dame.

@TradNorm @russellcurtis @FTerryArchitect @ABell2019 @yuanyi_z The building is being preserved, it's just not being made into a pastiche of what was there before.

@THE_LHC @russellcurtis @ABell2019 @yuanyi_z The damage caused by the bombing of Coventry was obviously culturally significant. Clandon Park having a fire during restoration…not so much, I would suggest.

@FTerryArchitect @russellcurtis @ABell2019 @yuanyi_z So presumably the decision not to rebuild Coventry Cathedral after the war was "woke nonsense" was it?

@SVHarding @jambojimmysp Did you know that the Roman walls of Chester were rebuilt in the 19th century?

@FTerryArchitect @jambojimmysp So are you going to restore the castles in ruins or how about Hadrian's wall. Not to mention the abbeys monasteries etc. You see how what you said odd nonsense.